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Local Knowledge of Biotic Diversity and its Conservation in Rural Hausaland, Northern Nigeria1
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In this paper, the authors argue that the potential erosion of biodiversity in Hausaland has been checked by the varied management of cultivated and other lands, and by the use of plants in overlapping contexts.Abstract:
Because biodiversity is debated primarily from western perspectives, the significance of threatened taxa has not been properly assessed in the cultural and ecological contexts of their use. Instead, conservable species tend to be identified by outsiders who are culturally and politically detached from the threatened environments. However, over the last decade or so a growing number of studies document why and how indigenous knowledge and people can become part of development and sustainable conservation. Presented here is a Nigerian example that illustrates how formal conservation efforts are handicapped by their failure to take into account local environmental knowledge. I argue that the potential erosion of biodiversity in Hausaland has been checked by the varied management of cultivated and other lands, and by the use of plants in overlapping contexts—as medicines, foods, and the like.read more
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Traditional herbal drugs of Bulamogi, Uganda: plants, use and administration
TL;DR: An inventory of the medicinal plants of Bulamogi county in Uganda, including their medicinal use, preparation and administration modes is presented, to promote confidence among users of traditional medicine, and also to create opportunities for the marketing of herbal medicines and generate incomes for the community.
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Biodiversity Scenarios: Projections of 21st century change in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services
TL;DR: Leadley, P., Pereira, HM., Alkemade, R., Fernandez-Manjarres, JF., Proenca, V, Scharlemann, JPW and Walpole, MJ as discussed by the authors, 2010. Biodiversity Scenarios: Projections of 21st century change in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.
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Medicinal plant diversity and uses in the Sango bay area, Southern Uganda.
Paul Ssegawa,John M. Kasenene +1 more
TL;DR: An inventory is presented for the medicinal plants of the Sango bay area in Southern Uganda, using semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and participant observation as well as transect walks in wild herbal plant collection areas to record plant species belonging to 163 genera and 58 families with medicinal values.
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Firewood use in Bulamogi County, Uganda: species selection, harvesting and consumption patterns
TL;DR: In this article, a study was carried out in Bulamogi, Uganda, with the main objective of determining preferred firewood species, their harvesting and consumption patterns, and finding that 48 plant species in 36 genera and 20 families are used as firewood.
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Traditional medicine in Bulamogi county, Uganda: its practitioners, users and viability.
TL;DR: The functional values of OM and TM are different in that they serve different health needs in the society, so it is suggested that they are compatible and complementary as a reliance on both systems is observed.
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Natural connections : perspectives in community-based conservation
TL;DR: Natural Connections as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of community-based conservation in the context of the debate over sustainable development, poverty, and environmental decline case studies from the developed and developing worlds (Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom).
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People, plants, and justice : the politics of nature conservation
TL;DR: Zerner and Schroeder as discussed by the authors proposed a broader vision of justice and nature conservation in the Tropics, focusing on resource extraction and environmental justice in the tropical regions of the world.
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Food as medicine and medicine as food. An adaptive framework for the interpretation of plant utilization among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria.
Nina L. Etkin,Paul J. Ross +1 more
TL;DR: The adaptive significance of plant utilization by a Hausa population and an investigation of the multidimensional aspects of plant use focuses attention on botanicals which serve as constituents of both the local diet and an herbal pharmacopoeia.